It makes for good, but sad reading - the slow but steady decent to war. What would have happened if war had been stopped
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| Author: | Drex [ Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The American Civil War, Day by Day |
The Confederacy has been and always will be in denial! |
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| Author: | cameronm [ Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:01 pm ] |
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It makes for good, but sad reading - the slow but steady decent to war. What would have happened if war had been stopped
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| Author: | Drex [ Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The American Civil War, Day by Day |
If the Civil War had never occurred it is unlikely that a National consciousness would have developed and the "State" would have been the focal point of one's loyalty. Remember Lee went with the South because he was loyal to his state. After the Civil War, this type of thinking was replaced with a loyalty for the Country as a whole. Slavery would have disappeared, I think, eventually but the racial attitudes would have persisted more strongly. It is also possible that a civil war would have occurred later anyway. |
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| Author: | Ernie Sands [ Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:53 pm ] |
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Very important supplies for the Confederates. |
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| Author: | Drex [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:52 pm ] |
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So Winfield Scott had a son who was colonel in the regular army? I wonder what happened to him. I'm sure he must have risen to general in the war. |
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| Author: | MarkGaff [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:22 pm ] |
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Drex wrote: So Winfield Scott had a son who was colonel in the regular army? I wonder what happened to him. I'm sure he must have risen to general in the war. You raised an interesting question....I did some searching and found this in google book entitles "Civil War high commands By John H. Eicher, David J. Eicher" http://books.google.com/books?id=Fs0Ajl ... &q&f=false Henry Lee Scott (son-in-law to Winfield Scott? his daughter married into the same surname?) He was a Colonel in April 1861. "Alleged to have leaked Union war plans to the CSA" !!!!! The whole thing sounds really interesting. [edit} as a side note - Winfield Scott had (3) sons, 2 died as children. The other was a son from his first marriage...but there appears to be little information on him and does not look like he was in the military. He had several daughters. |
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| Author: | Drex [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:58 pm ] |
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I have to question that. I found a site at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg ... id=8055495 that has a photo of his impressive tombstone in Baltimore, Md. He lived from 1814 - 1886 and was his father-in-law's aide in both the Mexican-American and Civil Wars. When Winfield retired, Henry was made Colonel and Inspector General but served less than a year before retiring after 29 years of service. He was brevetted a brigadier in 1865 for "long and faithful service" but declined the honor. Not something done for someone who leaked secrets to the enemy. However, where there is smoke there might be fire. |
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| Author: | MarkGaff [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:44 pm ] |
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I found similar information.....makes me wonder what happened! Sorry nsimms......for hijacking your thread! |
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| Author: | Ernie Sands [ Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The American Civil War, Day by Day |
FYI: http://www.civilwarsignals.org/1st/nicodemus/nic.html |
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| Author: | Neal Hebert [ Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:30 am ] |
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Nicodemus never did mention service in the New Mexico Territory; interesting. |
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| Author: | Drex [ Sun Jan 16, 2011 11:35 pm ] |
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Here is a picture of Lola from Wiki: 
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| Author: | cameronm [ Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:50 pm ] |
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From the description the picture may not do her justice - sounds like she would fit in well with the Hollywood set today 
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| Author: | Drex [ Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The American Civil War, Day by Day |
Here are some more images of Lola:  [img]http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/lola1g.jpg [/img]  She died before she was forty and the phtographs were taken in 1851 when she would be about thirty! So she had some miles on her and it showed. |
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| Author: | Ernie Sands [ Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:34 am ] |
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Continued good reading. The causes of succession (and the WAR) seems very clear in the Texas resolution. |
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| Author: | Ernie Sands [ Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:57 am ] |
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Excellent site on the Apache and the affairs in the Southwest. |
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